Tony McCoy’s visits to Ireland aren’t always the most successful, but he took his total for the two days at Fairyhouse to four when guiding Get Me Out Of Here to a smooth success in the Keelings’ Irish Strawberry Hurdle, before powering Alderwood to victory in the Rathbarry and Glenview Studs Novice Hurdle.

The Ladbrokes Irish Grand National is one of the most precious jewels in Ireland’s racing crown, and it was Lion Na Bearnai who came up trumps, returning at odds of 33/1, with the crowds happy to cheer him into the winners’ enclosure with his popular local trainer Tom Gibney.

BOYLESPORTS.com yesterday announced that they will refund bets on second placed horses in the first four races of the Cheltenham Festival, the Supreme Novices’ Hurdle, Arkle Trophy, Festival Handicap Chase and Champion Hurdle, on bets placed with Boyleports.com and with the firm over the phone.